follow the mouse with lag

how do i get a sprite to follow the mouse with some sort of lag

i know this works, but it is very rigid:

system -> every tick --> set sprite Y to Mouse.Y

any suggestions on how to get the sprite to lag behind the mouse a bit and when the movement stops the sprite "settles" into position

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How's that? It took a couple events and an array to make it happen, but it seems to get the job done. As far as I can see there's no way to make the main cursor invisible, though...

Can you decrease the speed of the sprite when it gets x number of pixels from the mouse?

distance(sprite.X, sprite.Y, Mouse.X, Mouse.Y) <= 100

Set sprite speed

Going off memory here. Am at work and no access to test it out. Lol

Thanx. I'll try them both out later today

it depends what you want.

Make the object have a 'bullet' behavior.

If you want it to just move towards the mouse, just set the bullet speed to whatever you want and then every tick set the angle towards position of mouse_x, mouse_y.

if you want it to move at speed relative to its distance from the mouse, do the same as above, but every tick set the bullet speed to distance(object.x,object.y,mouse.x,mouse.y) / modifier + modifier